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DCI Monika Paniatowski investigates the killing of an American guest – and uncovers a link to a 50-year-old murder.

When the body of an American woman is found in the Prince Alfred suite at the Royal Victoria Hotel, DCI Monika Paniatowski is faced with one of the most baffling cases of her career. The woman who called herself Mary Edwards had been a guest at the hotel for the past two weeks, having paid cash in advance. But who was she really – and what was she doing in a small town like Whitebridge? If Monika could discover why the dead woman had come to Lancashire, she would be one step closer to catching her killer.

The investigation takes an intriguing twist when Monika learns of a possible link to a fifty-year-old murder – but the only person who could tell her why it’s relevant is lying in a coma.

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ISBN-13:	9780727886200
Publisher:	Severn House Publishers
Publication date:	08/01/2016
Series:	A Monika Paniatowski Mystery , #11
Edition description:	First World Publication
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)

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Sally Spencer worked as a teacher both in England and Iran - where she witnessed the fall of the Shah. She now lives in Spain and writes full-time. She is an almost fanatical mah jong player.

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06/27/2016
In British author Spencer’s well-crafted 11th mystery featuring Det. Chief Insp. Monika Paniatowski (after Thicker Than Water), the discovery of American Mary Edwards’s dead body on Mar. 13, 1978, in Whitebridge’s best hotel, the Royal Victoria, prompts Acting Chief Constable Keith Pickering to call on his best, Monika, to lead the investigation. Monika and her team, including Det. Sgt. Kate Meadows and Det. Insp. Colin Beresford, question hotel staff and guests and track Mary’s movements. They learn that Mary was in disguise, that Mary wasn’t her real name, that she had handled a pub bully with a swift kick, that she was doing research at the local library into something that happened in 1924, and had consulted a local solicitor. It’s clear from the start that there’s a connection with the 1924 murder of Mill owner Wilfred Hardcastle, but ferreting out Mary’s real identity and purpose and how that long ago murder led to hers makes for a successful puzzle. (Aug.)

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2016-05-17
It takes more than a village to solve a murder when an American visitor is killed in her suite at Whitebridge's posh Royal Victoria.Just as DCI Monika Paniatowski's life with her twins seems to be settling into routine, Acting Chief Constable Keith Pickering pulls her off leave to deal with a sensitive case. Pickering is an evenhanded boss, but he wants his best detective (Thicker Than Water, 2015, etc.) to investigate the death of Mary Edwards, who booked the Prince Albert Suite at Whitebridge's best hotel. The reason for the dead woman's visit seems murky at best. Mary, whose passport has unaccountably gone missing, seems to have had two personae: a fashionable blonde New Yorker and a toned-down researcher in a frumpy brown wig. Monika's appeal to the public yields fruit on both sides of the Atlantic. Lepidopterist Walter Spinks IDs the butterfly tattooed on Mary's wrist as native to Lancashire. Librarian Janet Dobson spots mousey Mary as the patron doing microfiche research. Solicitor Arthur Tyndale reveals that Mary retained him the week before her death. Perhaps most significantly, New York police detective Fred Mahoney is able to give Monika a clue to Mary's real identity. But why would Melissa Evans, celebrated author of tell-all memoirs, tattoo an image of a northern brown argus on her wrist, take herself off to Whitebridge to look at newspaper clippings from 1924, and consult a local attorney about gun laws and safe houses? That's the question Monika and her crew are left to answer.Even a routine procedural isn't quite so routine in Spencer's deft hands.

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